
Constance Grady
Senior Correspondent
Latest articles by Constance Grady

The billionaire’s heroic image is built on media praise, breathless fans, and … romance novel tropes.


Large language models are disrupting the publishing industry, from spam submissions to garbage books.


After losing her masters to Scooter Braun, Taylor Swift is in the process of making new ones.


Librarian secrets to getting into books for the very first time.


Did you decapitate your Barbies? Or make them kiss?


The two-time Pulitzer winner is using his Harlem Shuffle trilogy to tell the history of New York.

From Jerry’s apartment to Lucifer’s penthouse, TV sets keep getting neater and neater.


From shipwrecks to hijackings to sex comedies, these are the best books of the first half of 2023.


Once Upon a One More Time is a lumpy slurry of Britney Spears, Cinderella, and Betty Friedan. For some reason, it’s part of a bigger trend.


Talking Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma with Claire Dederer.